KNOX – Days of the peeler bars are numbered in B.C.
BY NOON TUESDAY, the guy from the bar-supply company was loading torpedo-like beer gas tanks into his van. The Fox Showroom Pub didn’t need them anymore. The last scene of [Continue]
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KNOX – Our drug prices lure Americans here but how much can we spare?
WHEN TAYLOR YOUNG made his way off the Anacortes ferry and into a Sidney pharmacy the other day, he paid $300 for insulin that would have cost $2,400 back home in Norman, [Continue]
KNOX – Murray Rankin’s ‘daunting’ role as Canada’s new spy watchdog
YOU CAN JUST ABOUT hear Murray Rankin gulp over the phone from Ottawa. “Let’s be honest, it’s daunting,” the Victoria MP says of his new challenge. “But it’s so [Continue]
KNOX – Derelict house leaves a bad taste in neighbourhood
FOUR YEARS LATER, there is still no sign of life on Mars. The derelict house that caused nearby residents to rise up in one of Victoria’s more elegant protests remains [Continue]
KNOX – Beyond politics, the grim reality of police cuts
IT WOULD BE TEMPTING to dismiss the latest glumness out of the Victoria Police Department as political posturing. Tempting, but incorrect. Don’t get me wrong. VicPD [Continue]
KNOX – Taking a raincheck on the new normal – long, hot summers
“I’LL TAKE A RAINCHECK,” I told the kid at the cash register.That drew a blank stare. “A what?” Ah, I thought, her generation doesn’t write cheques. She [Continue]
KNOX – When 400 rioting Canadian soldiers killed a British policeman
HERE’S SOMETHING they didn’t teach you in history class: the time 400 rioting Canadian soldiers killed a British bobby while trying to bust some buddies out of jail. [Continue]
KNOX – ‘Secret Coast Expedition’ aims to amplify Spain’s role in B.C.
HOW DO YOU PLAN for a month in the wilderness? First, get your dental work done. Don’t want to end up with a dethroned crown halfway between the middle of nowhere and the [Continue]
KNOX – To bee or not to bee? It’s a question of survival, including ours
I MISS THE BIRDS and the bees. Also the caribou, the foxes and even the skunks. Can’t remember the last time anybody moaned about washing a skunk-sprayed dog with tomato [Continue]
KNOX – Turns out our Canadian accent is one of the sexiest in the world
SHE NUZZLED MY EAR: “Say ‘Roll up the rim to win.’ ” I shook her off. “Charlize, baby, I told you it’s over. She kept going. “Now do the Friendly Giant: [Continue]
KNOX – Roger the Marmot speaks to our fondness for animals that live free
ROGER THE MARMOT is back, and Victoria is relieved. He’s getting up in age, so some fretted that he might not emerge from hibernation this spring. But no, no, there he was [Continue]
KNOX – For some, small-town life is becoming the answer to big-city prices
ROB BUTTERFIELD banged his head against the wall in Vancouver for a decade. “You work your ass off for nothing,” the 34-year-old says. House prices, rents, everything [Continue]
KNOX – Bullying from Alberta won’t change anyone’s mind in B.C.
NEWS ITEM ONE: Jason (Dr. Strangelove) Kenney says he’ll choke off B.C.’s fuel supply on Day One if elected Alberta premier next week. News item two: Victoria is the [Continue]
KNOX – Is the climate-change battle worth higher gasoline prices?
HERE’S A QUESTION: If you knew — really believed — that higher gas prices would combat climate change, would you moan as much? Not that this week’s spike had much [Continue]
